¹ The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it comes from the desert, from a terrible land. ² A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the spoiler spoils. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing of it have I made to cease. ³ Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold on me, as the pangs of a woman that labours: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing [of it]. ⁴ My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure has he turned into fear to me. ⁵ Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield. ⁶ For so has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees. ⁷ And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he listened diligently with much care ⁸ And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights ⁹ And, see, here comes a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he has broken to the ground. ¹⁰ O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared to you. ¹¹ The burden of Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? ¹² The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night: if you will enquire, enquire ye: return, come. ¹³ The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia will you lodge, O you travelling companies of Dedanim. ¹⁴ The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. ¹⁵ For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. ¹⁶ For so has the Lord said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar will fail ¹⁷ And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, will be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel has spoken [it].